Sarah Palin: God will show me a door to the White House in 2012

Sarah Palin today said she will seek guidance from a higher authority over whether to run for the White House in 2012.

The defeated republican vice presidential candidate told how she hoped God would 'show her the way' on any bid for the presidency in four years.

But the Alaska governor, who has been promoted as a possible candidate in some republican quarters, has not yet decided to mount a campaign.

She said: 'I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door.

'Show me where the open door is.'

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin meets with Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, left, along with her staff and state commissioners during a morning meeting in the Governor's office in Anchorage

In characteristically breathless style, the 44-year-old added: 'And if there is an open door in 2012 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plough through that door.'

On Fox News, the mother-of-five admitted occasionally departing from the party line: 'If I went off script once in a while, I can't for the life of me remember any one time where it would have harmed [John Mccain], or the ticket.'

She also said she neither wanted, nor asked for, the $150,000 wardrobe that the republican Party bankrolled for her.

'I would have been happy to have worn my own clothes from day one,' she said.

Earlier, she claimed John McCain lost because the Republican ticket 'represented too much of the status quo'.

Sarah Palin holds her infant son Trig between interviews with local and national media at her home in Wasilla

The Alaska governor also blamed the Bush administration for putting off voters and insisted it was 'amazing' that McCain did as well as he did.

In an interview with the Anchorage Daily News she said: 'I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a 10 trillion dollar debt in a Republican administration?

'How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration?'

She added: 'If we’re talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing.

'So people desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. It's amazing that we did as well as we did.'

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The 44-year-old mother-of-five said: 'Some of the goofy things like who was Trig's mom. Well, I'm Trig's mom and do you want to see my medical records to prove that?

'And banning books. That was a ridiculous thing also that could have so easily been corrected just by a reporter taking an extra step and not basing a report on gossip or speculation.

Sarah Palin mixes baby formula as her daughters Willow, 14, and Piper, 7, decorate a cake in the kitchen of their home yesterday

'Just looking into the record. It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn't even been written when I was the mayor. So, gosh, we have so many examples, I mean every day, especially the first few weeks, every day something that was thrown out there.'

Asked about running for the Republican nomination in 2012, the Alaska governor seemed cool to the prospect pointing out that current polling showing favorable prospects in a potential GOP primary field are likely to shift.

'Look how fickle poll numbers are,' Palin said. 'Look where I've gone, up and down, up and down, even in the state of Alaska the last couple of months. We can't pay attention to those numbers.'

The interview comes after it was revealed that her accusations that Barack Obama had been 'palling around with terrorists' led him open to death threats.

The Alaskan governor is seen as a future presidential candidate, but the revelations, released in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to damage her credentials.

Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, left, spent time with Palin, right, at her home in Wasilla, Alaska, on Sunday

A report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor warned that Obama is a high risk target for racist gunmen.

It said: 'Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues.'

Sarah Palin's words upset the new First Family, with Michelle Obama asking her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett: 'Why would they try to make people hate us?'

Angry John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for the election loss, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

The claim is part of a campaign of targeted leaks designed to torpedo her future ambitions, with recent leaks alleging she was a 'diva' who spent more than $150,000 on clothes and that she did not know that Africa was a continent rather than a country.

However Palin defended the claims in interviews with CNN.

She said: 'I consider it cowardly. It's not true. That's cruel, it's mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news that's not fair and not right.'

Palin gestures while giving an interview to local media at her home in Wasilla.